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title: A year later, Russian troops controlled about 17% of Ukraine's inter… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: A year later, Russian troops controlled about 17% of Ukraine's internationally recognised territory, which constitutes 94% of Luhansk Oblast, 73% of Kherson Oblast, 72% of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 54% of Donetsk Oblast and all of Crimea, though Russia failed with its initial plan, with Ukrainian troops 
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# Ukraine, sentence 201

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A year later, Russian troops controlled about 17% of Ukraine's internationally recognised territory, which constitutes 94% of Luhansk Oblast, 73% of Kherson Oblast, 72% of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 54% of Donetsk Oblast and all of Crimea, though Russia failed with its initial plan, with Ukrainian troops recapturing some territory in counteroffensives.

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**Who acts:** Russian troops, recognised territory, Russia, Ukrainian troops, Oblast · **What happens:** control, recognise, constitute, fail, recapture, plan · **To what, where:** territory, counteroffensives

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian troops, recognised territory, Russia, Ukrainian troops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ukraine:201
# text = A year later, Russian troops controlled about 17% of Ukraine's internationally recognised territory, which constitutes 94% of Luhansk Oblast, 73% of Kherson Oblast, 72% of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 54% of Donetsk Oblast and all of Crimea, though Russia failed with its initial plan, with Ukrainian troops recapturing some territory in counteroffensives.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
7	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	internationally	internationally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	constitutes	constitute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	94	94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Luhansk	Luhansk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Oblast	Oblast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	73	73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Kherson	Kherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Oblast	oblast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Zaporizhzhia	Zaporizhzhia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	Oblast	Oblast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Donetsk	Donetsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Oblast	oblast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	50	obl	_	_
59	recapturing	recapture	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	acl	_	_
60	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	counteroffensives	counteroffensive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | past | Russian troops |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | internationally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **constitute** | present | Ukraine's recognised territory |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 4 | **fail** | past | Russia |  |  |  |  | with Oblast's initial plan; with Ukrainian troops | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **recapture** | gerund | Ukrainian troops *not said here* | some territory |  | counteroffensives |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 6 | **plan** |  | Oblast |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ukraine», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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